Document the behavior or the new --notes, --notes=<ref> and --no-notes options, and list --show-notes[=<ref>] and --[no-]standard-notes options as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:18:55AM +0200, Johan Herland wrote: > > And here's some documentation to go on top. > [...] > This example is wrong. "--notes=foo" will show _only_ foo. A few > examples: > > --notes=foo ;# only foo > --notes --notes=foo ;# foo and default > --notes=foo --notes=bar --notes --no-notes --notes=foo ;# only foo > > Make sense? Yeah, I really screwed that up. Hope this version is better. :) ...Johan Documentation/git-log.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/pretty-options.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index ff41784..ab3757b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -177,9 +177,9 @@ May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored. + -This setting can be disabled by the `--no-standard-notes` option, +This setting can be disabled by the `--no-notes` option, overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable, -and supplemented by the `--show-notes` option. +and overridden by the `--notes=<ref>` option. Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 50923e2..d5c9772 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -30,19 +30,34 @@ people using 80-column terminals. preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this defaults to UTF-8. ---no-notes:: ---show-notes[=<ref>]:: +--notes[=<ref>]:: Show the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) that annotate the commit, when showing the commit log message. This is the default for `git log`, `git show` and `git whatchanged` commands when - there is no `--pretty`, `--format` nor `--oneline` option is - given on the command line. + there is no `--pretty`, `--format` nor `--oneline` option given + on the command line. ++ +By default, the notes shown are from the notes refs listed in the +'core.notesRef' and 'notes.displayRef' variables (or corresponding +environment overrides). See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. ++ +With an optional '<ref>' argument, show this notes ref instead of the +default notes ref(s). The ref is taken to be in `refs/notes/` if it +is not qualified. + -With an optional argument, add this ref to the list of notes. The ref -is taken to be in `refs/notes/` if it is not qualified. +Multiple --notes options can be combined to control which notes are +being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from +"refs/notes/foo"; "--notes=foo --notes" will show both notes from +"refs/notes/foo" and from the default notes ref(s). +--no-notes:: + Do not show notes. This negates the above `--notes` option, by + resetting the list of notes refs from which notes are shown. + Options are parsed in the order given on the command line, so e.g. + "--notes --notes=foo --no-notes --notes=bar" will only show notes + from "refs/notes/bar". + +--show-notes[=<ref>]:: --[no-]standard-notes:: - Enable or disable populating the notes ref list from the - 'core.notesRef' and 'notes.displayRef' variables (or - corresponding environment overrides). Enabled by default. - See linkgit:git-config[1]. + These options are deprecated. Use the above --notes/--no-notes + options instead. -- 1.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html